UCLA takes the belt, 38–37, at home over USC.
AP poll, week 13: USC No. 15 at UCLA unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA took the belt here, ending USC’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #228) and starting reign #229. It lasted 287 days and 0 defenses, until California took it on September 4, 1993.
For UCLA this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 7th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 5–1; all-time USC leads 7–2. Every meeting →
About this game
UCLA defeated USC 38-37 on November 21, 1992, in a regular season matchup at home. With this victory, UCLA took the College Football Belt from USC.
Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.
Sources Game record: College Football Data (id 58431) · This game in the downloadable dataset